El se quitó la piel por mí
2014 · 11m · Estados Unidos
Directed by Ben Aston
Genres: dark comedy, fantasy, romance
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, surreal
A simple, domestic love story about a man who takes his skin off for his girlfriend — and why that was probably not the best idea.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A man literally strips himself to the bone for love and it's somehow both hilarious and genuinely unsettling—this is the kind of premise that makes you lean back and think 'wait, is this actually working?' and then realize it absolutely is.
Aston's constraint-based storytelling sits in a lineage of body horror-as-metaphor (Cronenberg, Švankmajer), but the film's formal restraint—what it chooses not to show—demonstrates sophisticated editorial thinking about the grotesque.
The decision to play the escalating body horror with deadpan domestic comedy beats is what sells this; a lesser film would wink or flinch, but Aston commits to the tonal dissonance so fully that the absurdity becomes genuinely moving.